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LISA ’06 offers the most in-depth, real-world system administration training available! A Blueprint for Real World System Administration 20TH LARGE INSTALLATION SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE DECEMBER 3–8, 2006 | WASHINGTON, D.C. Register by November 10 and save! www.usenix.org/lisa2006 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE Saturday, December 2 5:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. On-Site Registration 6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Welcome Get-Together 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Conference Orientation Sunday, December 3 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. On-Site Registration 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Training Program Building a 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Workshops 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Luncheon for Training Sysadmin & Workshop Attendees Monday, December 4 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. On-Site Registration Community 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Training Program 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Workshops 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Luncheon for Training & Workshop Attendees WHY ATTEND LISA ’06? 7:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions “There is always one thing that I learn that makes me want to shout, ‘That just paid for the entire conference!’ Also, there Tuesday, December 5 have been many times when I learned about a new sysadmin 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. On-Site Registration tool at LISA years before it was popular: that’s really helped me 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Training Program stay ahead of the pack.” 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Workshops —Tom Limoncelli, Google 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Luncheon for Training & Workshop Attendees 7:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Birds-of-a-Feather Register today at www.usenix.org/lisa2006 Sessions Wednesday, December 6 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. On-Site Registration 8:45 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Opening Remarks, Awards, and Keynote 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Training Program CONTENTS 11:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Technical Program Noon–7:00 p.m. Vendor Exhibition Register by 1 Invitation from the Program Chair 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Luncheon for Training “ ” Attendees November 10, 2006, 1 Conference Organizers 5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Exhibition Reception and 2–3 Training at a Glance 7:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions 4–12 Training Program Thursday, December 7 Save! 6 A Note for Managers 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. On-Site Registration Hotel Discount Deadline: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Training Program 8 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) November 10, 2006 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Technical Program 13–17 Training Instructors 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Vendor Exhibition 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Luncheon for Training 18 Keynote Address Attendees 18–23 Technical Sessions 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Conference Reception 8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Birds-of-a-Feather 24 Workshops Sessions Early 25 Vendor Exhibition Friday, December 8 8:00 a.m.–noon On-Site Registration Bird 26 About USENIX & SAGE 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Training Program Discount 26 Supporting Members & Sponsors 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Technical Program www.usenix.org/lisa2006 27 Conference Activities & Services 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Luncheon for Training Attendees 27 Student Discounts & Grants 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Work-in-Progress Reports 28 Hotel & Travel Information 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Closing Session: 29 Registration Information & Fees Improv for Sysadmins* JOIN US! Dear Colleague, LISA ‘06 Organizers On behalf of all of the LISA ’06 organizers, I’d like to invite you to join us in Washington, D.C., for the 20th Large Installation System Program Chair Administration Conference. William LeFebvre, Independent For the past 19 years LISA has been the focal point for the global Consultant community of system and network administrators. This year LISA continues that tradition, featuring innovative tools and techniques Program Committee essential for your professional and technical development. Narayan Desai, Argonne National Take advantage of the 6 days of training. Select from over 50 tutorials taught by highly Laboratory expert instructors, including: Peter Galvin, Corporate Technologies, • Gerald Carter on Ethereal and the Art of Debugging Networks Inc. • Richard Bejtlich on TCP/IP Weapons Trey Harris, Amazon.com • Æleen Frisch on Administering Linux in Production Environments John “Rowan” Littell, California • Chip Salzenberg on Higher-Order Perl College of the Arts In addition to the training, 3 days of technical sessions include top-notch refereed papers, Adam Moskowitz, Upromise, Inc. informative invited talks, expert Guru Is In sessions, and the popular Hit the Ground Run- ning track. Mario Obejas, Raytheon Our 20+ invited talks feature our most impressive slate of speakers to date, including: Tom Perrine, Sony Computer Entertainment America • Keynote: “Hollywood’s Secret War on Your NOC,” by Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing and former Director of European Affairs for the EFF W. Curtis Preston, GlassHouse Technologies • “Open Source Software and Its Role in Space Exploration,” by DJ Byrne, Jet Propul- sion Laboratory Amy Rich, Tufts University • “Teaching Problem Solving: You Can and You Should,” by Elizabeth Zwicky, Acuitus Marc Staveley, SOMA Networks, Inc. • “Corporate Security: A Hacker Perspective,” by Mark “Simple Nomad” Loveless, Rudi Van Drunen, Leiden Cytology Vernier Networks, Inc. and Pathology Labs • “Black Ops 2006: Pattern Recognition,” by Dan Kaminsky, DoxPara Research Alexios Zavras, IT Consultant • “High Availability: From Luxury to Commonplace Necessity in 10 Years,” by Eric Hennessey, Symantec Corp. Invited Talk Committee LISA is the premier forum for presenting new research in system administration. We David N. Blank-Edelman, selected papers from over 40 submissions, showcasing state-of-the-art work on topics Northeastern University CCIS including system and network management, theory, visualization, security, electronic mail, and more. Doug Hughes, Global Crossing Get a head start on key technologies with 15-minute talks in the Hit the Ground Running Guru Is In Coordinator track. Find out about the basic concepts, what acronyms you will encounter, and what Web sites and books are the best resources. Topics include Mac OS X, bcfg2, Puppet, Philip Kizer, Estacado Systems Building a Linux RAC Cluster, and more. Workshops Coordinator Bring your perplexing technical questions to the experts at LISA’s Guru Is In sessions. Luke Kanies, Reductive Labs Explore the latest commercial innovations at the Vendor Exhibition. Benefit from new opportunities for peer interaction around the topics that mean the most Work-in-Progress Session to you. Coordinator Early registration discounts for LISA ’06, taking place December 3–8, 2006, in Washing- Esther Filderman, Pittsburgh ton, D.C., are now available. Register by Friday, November 10, and save up to $300! Supercomputing Center We‘re pleased to bring LISA to Washington, D.C., and look forward to seeing you there. The USENIX Association Staff William LeFebvre LISA ’06 Program Chair Register today at www.usenix.org/lisa2006. * REGISTER BY NOVEMBER 10 AND SAVE! • 1 TRAINING AT A GLANCE SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 MONDAY, DECEMBER 4 (CONTINUED) FULL DAY: 9:00 A.M.–5:00 P.M. FULL DAY: 9:00 A.M.–5:00 P.M. (CONTINUED) S1 Peter Baer Galvin NEW! Solaris 10 Administration M4 Esther Filderman An Introduction to OpenAFS and Its Workshop and Alf Wachsmann Administration S2 Richard Bejtlich NEW! TCP/IP Weapons School M5 Matt Larson Advanced Topics in DNS Administra- (Day 1 of 2) tion S3 John Sellens System and Network Monitoring: HALF DAY MORNING: 9:00 A.M.–12:30 P.M. Tools in Depth M6 David Rhoades The Latest Hacking Tools and S4 Æleen Frisch Administering Linux in Production Defenses Environments M7 Daniel L. Appelman NEW! Blogs and Spam: Legal S5 Rik Farrow NEW! Linux Server Security Issues for the System Administrator Hands-On M8 Æleen Frisch NEW! Beyond Shell Scripts: S6 Tom Christiansen Advanced Perl Programming 21st-Century Automation Tools and Techniques HALF DAY MORNING: 9:00 A.M.–12:30 P.M. M9 Gerald Carter Ethereal and the Art of Debugging S7 William LeFebvre Introduction to Domain Name System Networks Administration S8 Theodore Ts’o NEW! Bzr, Hg, and Git, Oh My! HALF DAY AFTERNOON: 1:30 P.M.–5:00 P.M. Distributed Source Code Management M10 Systems Mike Ciavarella Documentation Techniques for Sysadmins S9 Gerald Carter NEW! So You Have Active Directory: M11 Adam Moskowitz NEW! How to Interview a System Now What? (A Guide to AD Integration Administrator for UNIX Sysadmins) M12 John Sellens Databases: What You Need to Know HALF DAY AFTERNOON: 1:30 P.M.–5:00 P.M. M13 Strata Rose Chalup Project Troubleshooting S10 William LeFebvre Intermediate Topics in Domain Name System Administration TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5 S11 Michael Lucas NEW! Netflow on the Cheap FULL DAY: 9:00 A.M.–5:00 P.M. S12 Gerald Carter Kerberos 5: Revenge of the Three- Headed Dog T1 James Mauro and Solaris 10 Performance, Observability, Richard McDougall and Debugging MONDAY, DECEMBER 4 T2 Abe Singer Building a Logging Infrastructure and Log Analysis for Security FULL DAY: 9:00 A.M.–5:00 P.M. T3 Mike Ciavarella Seven Habits of the Highly Effective M1 Marc Staveley System and Network Performance and Lee Damon System Administrator: Hints, Tricks, Tuning Techniques, & Tools of the Trade T4 Gerald Carter Managing Samba 3.0 M2 Richard Bejtlich NEW! TCP/IP Weapons School (Day 2 of 2) T5 John Gannon Introduction to VMware ESX Server M3 Lee Damon Issues in UNIX Infrastructure Design and John Arrasjid 2 • REGISTER TODAY: WWW.USENIX.ORG/LISA2006 Early Bird Register by November 10, 2006, and SAVE! Discount www.usenix.org/lisa2006 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5 (CONTINUED) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7 *HALF DAY MORNING: 9:00 A.M.–12:30 P.M.